June 15 – August 11, 2012

Material Assumptions: Paper as Dialogue (June 15 – August 11, 2012)

This exhibition is about the discursive ways that artists approach paper as a medium, technology, and tool. It features newly commissioned works by contemporary artists using paper made to their specifications in the Center for Book and Paper Arts Studios. A second section features works created by artists in-residence at Dieu Donné, a New York-based workspace dedicated to the preservation of contemporary art in the hand papermaking process.

This blog serves to document the collaborative and curatorial processes leading up to the exhibition.

About Handmade Paper

Welcome to the Paper Studio at the Center for Book and Paper Arts in Chicago. This is the nerve center for beginning the commissioned paper for artists participating in Material Assumptions: Paper as Dialogue. I am Elizabeth Isakson-Dado, Interdisciplinary Book and Paper MFA Candidate ’13, and I will take you on a quick tour of our studio, and show a few photographs of the process of making a simple sheet of handmade paper

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